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Dec. 20, 2003
Welcome to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, NPR's weekly news quiz program. Find out how well you know your news by playing the interactive online version below. You can also listen to this week's show with host Peter Sagal.
Linda Wertheimer graciously sits in this week for Carl Kasell.
Who's Linda This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen)
LINDA: "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom, and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"
That was someone nobly refusing the offer of a glass of water from his captors early this week. Who?
• Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen)
LINDA: "He was on gloat-control drugs devised by NIH for just this occasion."
That's a Republican senate aide talking about someone's reaction to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Who seemed to be straining not to chortle?
Hint: This is compared to gloat-inducing drugs he was on when he landed on the aircraft carrier in May.
• Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen)
LINDA: "Do you suppose that the Bush administration has [him] hidden away somewhere, and will bring him out before the election?"
That was former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright making what she insisted was a joke. She was asking a rather cynical question about whether the United States would now be able to capture... whom?
Hint: This guy's hole is probably in the remote mountains of Afghanistan.
• Answer 3
Who's Linda Round II
Quote 4 (Listen)
LINDA: "They're trying to turn the clock back to Sept. 10, 2001!"
That was John Yoo, a former Justice Department official, criticizing a federal appeals court decision this week. The court decided that the administration doesn't have the power to do what, to American citizens?
Hint: The case concerns Jose Padilla.
• Answer 3
Quote 5 (Listen)
LINDA: "New Orleans, GMAC, Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Motor City (Detroit in December -- there's a holiday destination for you), Insight, Continental Tire, Alamo, Houston, Holiday, Silicon Valley, Music City, Sun, Liberty, Independence and San Francisco."
From NBCsports.com, that's a complete list of certain events happening this month. What kind of events?
Hint: Rose isn't on the list because it's held on Jan. 1.
• Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen)
LINDA: "I want the kind of women who are going to be attracted to a geek."
That was a 29-year-old engineer named Tony Straquadine who was practicing his geekly charms on the ladies waiting in line for what movie this week?
• Answer 6
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